OMG 1 year gone!

Audrey sleeping

Did I just wake up?

Mr. T get out of the dishwasher

Audrey

The Family

Melanie

Oliver

Teddy

Hello everyone.

Can you believe that the quads are turning 1 tomorrow? I do not believe that they are 1 year old. So much has happened to our lives in the last year. This time last year Naedrie was in the hospital getting IV drips and medications. She was then anticipating a big day the next day with the birth of the quads. The c-section went great. The babies did so well in the ICU and then were all home within 2-3 weeks. They have just continued to do so well in the last year.

My how our lives have changed too. I will expand on the babies in a minute. I passed my boards shortly after the babies were born. We are still getting settled in to our house in Springfield. My job is going well getting established. Naedrie is adjusting very well to being a stay at home mom. She had a nice trip to a knitting convention last month with her mother. She really enjoyed that trip and I survived being a single dad while she was gone. More recently Bonnie and I just got back from a trip to Germany. We went over to see my grandfather who turned 85 and the rest of our family there. Bonnie had so much fun. She is talking about it all the time. She is starting to pick up German. She did really well on the trip. She is really a great traveling partner. We had a lot of fun together. She got to go to an indoor water park. She road on a train. Had several bike rides. She had a blast at the local zoo. She got to pull a monkey in a wagon. She also got to eat lots of brotchen and enjoyed those. She liked to go shopping. The Kirmus (carnival) was lots of fun and just like here in America, they are not cheap. You end up spending about as much as you would going to Six Flags. I had my fun cleaning out the fuel injectors in the VW that I was borrowing from Sigrid and Rolf on the autobahn. I also enjoyed taking Bonnie down the slide at the water park. Thanks to Ice Age 3, she did not mind the long flight either.

Bonnie is now 3. She is a little talker. She is really turning into a little girl. She is very easy to manage these days and she is a big helper around the house. some of her favorite "chores" including feeding the pups and starting the dishwasher. She loves to help all the time. She had a good birthday and got a new bike. She is enjoying riding it. She also got lots of new books as well. She is enjoying school. She got to tell them all about her trip today. She is about to move up to the next class.

The babies are doing well. They are all pushing toys around the living room now. They all have teeth. While I was gone for 10 days, Melanie had 4 teeth arrive. She was the last one to get any at all. Teddy is just getting to be so big. Oliver still leads the pack in the chunk department. Audrey is not far behind Oliver in weight. They are all saying dada. They are doing hand signs for things like more. More is Oliver's favorite thing to say at dinner time. They definitely let you know if you finish before they are done. They are playing well together. They enjoy crawling around the house. They seems to look like a little duckling family crawling after each other. They really enjoy playing with Bonnie as well.

Overall things are doing well with the family.

Hope everyone enjoys the pictures. Will try to not make things be as long for the next update.